Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists <at> yahoo.co.uk> writes: > > On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:13:22 -0400 > > > priviledge is wrong in any version of English. > > And what's right about privilege exactly, actually I wouldn't care for > the answer anyway, sounds came before words and there are many > complexities, before very few decide to put a variant in an > english dictionary. >
It is from the Latin "privilegium", so the correct spelling before the "g" was determined two thousand years ago. The "privi" part meaning private, and "legium" of law